Chapter 511 Curiosity killed the cat

With the magic network after divinity, many things have changed, such as its offline projection.

The offline projection of the Magic Network is what players and tourists "carry" back, especially the strengthening of players' souls, which naturally carries the imprint of occultism. Players go offline and bring these occult factors into reality.

, thus causing the intrusion of mysterious rules and phenomena.

The greater the number of players and tourists, the more serious the invasion of mysterious rules and mysterious phenomena will be, but strangely, since the 7th beta, there have been very few supernatural phenomena that cannot be explained by science.

At least that's the case in the relevant department's files.

This computer room is not big, but the cabinets are all covered with dark red sarcoma. The hands wearing white gloves are like mummies. In the huge hollow eye sockets, the two round eyeballs are almost completely exposed.

Also exposed are the dark red gums and snow-white teeth, but these are hidden within a tight protective cover.

Click, click, the mummy staggered onto the elevator and ascended from the negative floor to the first floor. When the elevator door opened, it had turned into him, a fleshy, middle-aged, stout man who looked a little greasy.

"Professor Huo, people from the Public Security Bureau are here again."

Professor Huo was taking off his protective clothing. When he heard this, he frowned and said to the intercom, "Let them wait in my office."

"OK."

Five minutes later, Professor Huo's office.

"This person has resigned, and we don't know the reason..." Professor Huo opened the drawer, "This is all his information in our institution. Sorry, I can only help you with this."

"This is already the fourth person you have disappeared.", the leading detective said.

"Just because these people have worked in our institution, it doesn't mean we have problems, right? We are a cooperative institution of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a 3A-level partner certified by Canaan Huaguo Company. We are a formal enterprise." Professor Huo was a little impatient.

Knocked on the table.

"you……"

"Okay, okay", an older criminal policeman behind stopped his colleague and said with a smile: "It's just a routine investigation, Professor Huo doesn't need to worry about it."

"My time is precious...that's it?"

Outside the gate of the institute, the two criminal policemen who just stood smoking in front of the institution's intimidating plaques. The young detective said, "There is definitely something wrong with that guy, and it is definitely related to this series of disappearances. I have a strong feeling for it."

intuition."

"We can't rely on intuition when handling cases." The old detective disagreed.

"Otherwise there is no way to explain why all the missing persons are involved with this agency?"

"I've checked it and found no problem."

"That's the biggest problem. It's a large online psychological information and spiritual aid organization. Don't you think it's too deserted inside? The smell is also weird. Didn't you smell it?"

The old detective was amused, "Smell, what smell? I think you are going crazy trying to solve the case."

"Anyway, I think there must be something wrong with that guy."

"Do you really think you are Sherlock Holmes? Go away..."

"Where to go?"

After the two detectives left, Professor Huo closed the curtains in the office, turned around and sat down expressionlessly. In broad daylight, the light in the room suddenly became dark, and the dim light made his face appear bright and dark, as if it were an inanimate statue.

sculpture.

"Professor Huo?"

"What's up?"

"The final round of interviews is in 5 minutes."

"I'll be right over."

In the conference room, Professor Huo and four colleagues in white coats pushed open the door. When more than a dozen interviewers saw them coming in, they all stood up.

Professor Huo smiled and waved his hand, "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, everyone sits down, everyone sits down."

Then he walked into the connected small conference room. After a while, the secretary called the first interviewer in.

"Do you know our organization?"

In a small conference room, a man in a white coat asked.

"Did some homework!"

The first interviewer said nervously.

"Very good. Our organization has used new technologies. It does not require you to have professional knowledge and skills. All it requires is patience. Professional issues are handled by intelligent AI. Now we simulate a scenario: a tourist, 23 years old, accepts

With our psychological counseling, we have successfully established a second cognition online. However, after offline, the first cognition and the second cognition conflict. There may be hidden dangers such as 'schizophrenia'. How should you deal with it?

?”

"Well……"

The interviewer racked his brains to recall, organized his words and began to answer.

"good"

A person in a white coat commented, "The conflict between Second Life and First Life has gradually attracted widespread attention from society, and there are more and more service agencies dealing with similar issues. May I ask, what do you think will happen if this trend continues?

"

"This is caused by the plot of Total War..."

The interviewer was well prepared and had his own set of views, "...any new thing is always uncomfortable at the beginning. The biggest problem comes from the 'alien' mentality towards new things. The biggest source of fear and rejection is the unknown. I believe,

Once Second Life becomes popular, this problem will become a common problem, just like a cold or a fever, and users can even overcome it on their own."

"What if we can't overcome it?" Professor Huo asked for the first time.

"This...", the interviewer was a little stuck, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Isn't our organization set up just for situations like this?"

Professor Huo nodded.

…

The interview lasted until noon, and finally all the interviewees were sent away. The four people in white coats said nothing, and there was no communication during the whole process. Each person left holding a file.

It was an office building in Novo University, but it was extremely quiet. The corridor was quiet. A window on the second floor suddenly opened from the outside, and the young detective who had visited in the morning climbed in.

He turned over very quickly and walked in. At this moment, an office door happened to open, and a stiff-moving man in a white coat walked out.

Just as he was about to be discovered, he rolled over and hid in the bathroom.

The bathroom was spotless. The young detective touched the sink, put on gloves, and unscrewed the water pipe below.

Dry.

Stiff footsteps came nearby. The detective hid in the cubicle, closed the door, and lay down through the crack in the door to look out.

A man in a white coat with a stiff posture stood in front of the urinal, unbuttoned his trousers, paused for a moment, and then left.

Thinking of the dried water pipe, the detective's mouth felt dry for a while.

When there was no movement outside, I came to the urinal and touched the inside of the pool with my gloved hands.

It's clean and has no traces of use for a long time.

This is weird.

"What are you looking for?"

The sudden voice behind him startled him, and he turned around to see Professor Huo, whom he had officially met in the morning, "Uh... I came in to use the toilet."

Professor Huo had no expression on his face and stared at him for several seconds.

The detective didn't know why his heart was beating so fast, and he couldn't help but touch his right pocket.

"Finished?"

"……ah?"

"Give me a moment"

"oh oh!"

The detective pretended that nothing was wrong and walked out. After taking a few steps, he heard the sound of water behind him.

Could it be that there is a mistake? This suspicious person...

When he came outside the corridor, there was nothing unusual about the white coats walking back and forth. He took the elevator to the first floor suspiciously. The sun was shining brightly outside, and the beautiful receptionist was intently watching the online live broadcast on the computer screen.

"Well, Holmes, have you found any clues?"

After returning home, my partner, the old detective, joked, and the detective explained the suspicious points he had discovered.

"How come, there are so many people..."

"Really, there is a layer of ash in the sewer pipes."

"Isn't this easy to check? If you ask the water company, won't you get the result?"

"yes!"

The two drove to the water company and found out that the water consumption of that building and institution had dropped sharply over the past few months. With hundreds of people, the water consumption was not as much as that of an ordinary family of three.
To be continued...